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From Arabian tribes to Islamic empire : army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850 / Patricia Crone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crone, Patricia, 1945-2015.
- Series:
- Collected studies ; CS895.
- Collected studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic Empire--History, Military.
- Islamic Empire.
- History, Military.
- Islamic Empire--History--622-661.
- History.
- Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.
- Islam and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Arabian background
- The tribe and the state
- Tribes and states in the Middle East
- The first-century concept of hiǧra
- The later evolution
- Were the Qays and Yemen of the Umayyad period political parties?
- A note on Muqātil b. Ḥayyan and Muqātil b. Sulaymān
- The significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtār's revolt and the 'Abbāsid revolution
- On the meaning of the 'Abbāsid call to al-Riḍā
- The 'Abbāsid Abnā' and Sāsānid cavalrymen
- The early Islamic world
- The pay of client soldiers in the Umayyad period
- Mawālī and the prophet's family: an early Shīʻite view
- Imperial trauma: the case of the Arabs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754659259
- 0754659259
- OCLC:
- 165478714
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